Recent content by NVP5White

Haven't posted it yet but I'll be doing that tonight or tomorrow.

Its been a long time since I've posted in here, but I'm glad to see some familiar folks are still active. The other day I went out to take pictures of my P5 to include in an ad to sell the car. This is my favorite...

Try Adobe Premier Elements. It does everything you will need or know to do with video at this point. After some editing you will know better whether you need to step up to the full version of Premier. I have used it and it worked well, but I only used it for standard definition stuff. Not...

That Sammy monitor is a TN LCD panel. For optimum color rendering look for a wide gammut IPS panel. Eizo (as you mentioend) uses these as well as most of the Apple displays, including the one in the last gen 24" iMac and current gen 27" iMac. Unfortuantely, the response time, contrast ratio...

To clarify, these are pictures you took? Also, when you say these look better on a calibrated monitor what exactly do you mean? Unless you are talking about a wide color gamut calibrated monitor there really should be little difference if all images are in the sRGB color space. If you are...

Solid shot, Funky. I really like the evenness of the lighting on her face, and her expression and positioning are perfect. I would probably prefer to see a small kicker camera left illuminating her torso to give the suite some texture (and some additional separation for the subject)...

That's a good idea and something I can do in the future.

Headshots for a friend. This first image uses a single Nikon SB-600 into 20" square softbox. Fired about 1/8 power fired by eBay remotes. Gelled to bring it closer to incandescent lights in background. 43" bounce hand held below camera left. The second image uses 43" umbrella and 20"...

I'll put my vote in for Adobe Lightroom as an integral part of PP. Catalog & Rate in Lightroom Batch Adjustments: Camera calibration, vibrance/saturation, subtle sharpening, (chroma) noise reduction, color balance, vignette Specific image adjustments: Exposure, fill light, fine color...

Zach, you'll get the feeling of this thread... A good way to introduce yourself to the thread might be to post a collection of images that you feel are (a) of particular interest to the site (Mazdas or other cars), and/or (b) indicative of the style of photography and skills that you have...

Funky, you're the best. I like the key light placement, especially given the angle of her head and where the shadow line falls on her face. The second light is too far back behind the subject to do much good, but I suspect that is largely caused by her movement during the session. Need to get...

You're right, my bad. I was trying to bully the nay-sayers by making the affirmative answer unappealing. My rhetorical powers are useless against the gr! Seriously though, your work stands on its own: high quality, consistent, interesting, creative. Respect.

Let the customer decide. The key, for starters, is finding a niche in the market that you can excel in. For me, its on-location family portraits. That sounds lame but its earning me money (and paying for new gear). As my skills develop I will move into new areas. But for now, I will only...

There are many reasons to shoot RAW, but one of them is not to optimize forumz image quality. When resizing for the forum I toss 96.55% of my pixels into the trash (really, I just calculated it) along with a ton of color data. For the web I agree that JPEG *can* be technically equivalent to...

+1,958,776 I have the D90 and its sensor is to die for. Ergonomics are spot on. Canon's JPEGs are sharper out of the camera but who shoots JPEG? In any/all RAW workflows the Nikon woops ass. Check out DXO Mark for confirmation: DXO Mark Camera Rankings Be sure to select "APS-C" from the...